Friday 8 August 2014

Being prepared

We're working with the Topsham Sea Scout Group to help them redesign and rebuild their scout hut. Built in the early 1960s this timber hut is typical of scout huts across the country.  It's recently fallen fowl of its low lying position in relation to the River Exe and during the recent high tide and storms it was flooded with 2 feet of water causing irrevocable damage.

The hut is coming down and a new design is planned to take the scouts through for the next few decades.  It's a sad moment in a way but provides and opportunity to redesign the space to reflect the activities and the increasing numbers of Sea Scouts, Scouts, Beavers and Cubs who use the building on a weekly basis.

We're consulting with the local planning department and the environmental agency (we need to raise the building up about the flood risk) but most importantly we'll be talking to the scout leaders and the children that use the building to create a space that really works for the way they want to use it.

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